Re: Re: Purer Than Thou
On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Andy F wrote:
On 1/23/07, ravi ravi@platosbeard.org wrote:
Of course we are not talking about IT support here, but about the
Free Software movement, and in particular, Stallman. And it is amusing as hell to hear “the left” disparage “getting deeply into things”. I
guess we should just post blog entries and run straw polls, eh?Yeah, no shit. Somebody went and tried to Do Something, wound up making large chunks of the means of production all commie-like, and gets cut down for being too idealistic. I can’t help but take note.
By the way, it seems to me that the biggest enthusiasts for this sort
of thing are software producers, not users. That’s not a bad thing,
of course; throwing off the chains of commodification and
exploitation are always admirable. But software producers often
assume a level of interest in drilling deep into things among the
broad public that may not exist.
And doesn’t IBM use Linux, and a bevy of other corps? Are they part
of the communist conspiracy?
Doug